Oh... Work and Alcohol... A Perfect Combo
Okay… there will be much talk this night. First off….. last night…. I go the drunkest I have ever been. I mean….. I was gone like I’ve never been gone before… and had such a bad hangover this morning that I barely wanted to live. Part of it….. Since I had dinner Saturday night after I got off work…. I’ve had only one bagel to eat. That’s about 47 hours and one bagel. Yeah… hasn’t been helping….. so I really am going to town on food right now. So… this entry will be some talk of how drunk I was Sunday night…… work Sunday night…. and work tonight…. and finally a horrible horrible dream I had today.
Okay… Sunday work…. it was just a miserable shift. We had like 70 cashiers and 2 customers. Every second after like 7 PM….. just no customers. I got all the blocking done… returns done…. trash done… registers cleaned… people shopping the store…. Dave Allard was even tier blocking aisles for nightcrew… though he did his usual fail job. Oh God…. it was just so dead. I mean…. at 9 Kristey asked if she could go home… I think kinda jokingly…. but I let her go… there was no reason… there were 3 of us there until 10…. I probably could’ve let either Lee or Nadejda go too.
So… besides that… the fun stories. So when I got there…. Dick England all needed stuff from me and was all nice as pie. I got the red card for him… which took forever because Blair was a whore…. but we’ll get to that later… but he all let me micromanage everything and put up no complaints….. I hope this will be a sign for the future.
Also… fucking Alex Connolly again. scheduled like 1:45 to 6… but he just punches out at 5:45 because that’s 4 hours and he doesn’t want to stay. I just wanted to fucking kill him. That kid is the laziest piece of shit in the history of the world and he has no use whatsoever. I fucking hate him.
Dave Allard…. another fun horror story. Fort some reason I was all nice to him the whole shift…. went for him for advice… etc. I let him explain tier blocking, let him suggest things to do because I’d run out of all the regular things. It was freaky…. I don’t know what was wrong with me. And it proved worthless as always as Dave just failed at blocking. Also… Jen said that the look on his face as he was just wandering around and doing stuff was priceless… he looked all angry and pissed that he wasn’t CDH. I’m amused if that is what it was. Also…. all shift he would just wander off and do stuff…. he’d take returns without asking me, do register trash without asking me, take trash out back, etc. I mean…. normally I’d tell someone to check with me before doing that stuff…. but he was keeping himself busy and I didn’t want to talk to him…. so it was all good.
So Lee on Sunday was fun too…. she was totally afraid of the lightning. Apparently her brother locked her out of the house when she was 7 during a thunder storm…. I had to totally walk her out to her car at the end of the night…. it was cute. But yeah… I enjoyed her up on the front… she works hard and does good stuff…. though she’s yet another that will not block for me…. but like no one will block… everyone hates.
So….. the real story of the night….. our store manager has officially lost any respect I had for him. He was a fucking ass. I mean….. just a fucking ass. First…. I need the red card at 5 when I got in as there were like 3 people that all needed it. Jen paged him like 3 times and he never answered…. so finally I got on and paged in my loud, angry, and annoyed voice. He called back immediately. Truth be told…. Jen pages too quietly and needs to yell a lot louder…. especially to get inattentive managers that don’t want to be gotten.
So…. at 5:30…. two more people were coming in and needed the red card again…. Lee being one of them. So she went to get it from Blair and he was as pissed as fuck ad yelling at Lee about why the fuck so many people needed the red card… then he was all… tell Jason no more calling people in to replace anyone or letting people stay late without his permission. Like seriously…. I wasn’t doing any of those anyway… and I never would without asking the manager. It’s like… Blair…. chill the fuck out…. people need the red card for a variety of reasons…. mostly because they’re switching shift or because sometimes the system just won’t let them punch in or out. It happens. But…. while he was doing all of this yelling at Lee… it was right in front of a customer and she went up to Lee afterward and was all… what was he so angry about and I feel sorry for you. When customers do that because the manager is an ass….. well…. that’s no good.
So then 9 PM comes around. Like 10 minutes before 9 Jen called for Blair…. and it took him a while to answer again….. but she got him and let him know her stuff was ready to go up to the cash office. He was kinda rude and said he was busy and just told her to wait for him. So she waited…. it was 9 and she needed to go home. She called again and watching her face as he was talking to her it looked like he was just continuing being an ass. He was all… I’m blocking dairy…. I’m not just gonna stop what I’m doing because you need me. Just leave everything there…. I’m the store manager…. you can do what I say. He eventually came up at like 9:10 and all called me over by wagging his finger at me…. which is rude enough s it is. So I put the stuff up with him… and he was all… tell Jen next time not to leave the drawers out… but leave them locked. I all wanted to tell him to learn to be a better manager and do his job….. but I didn’t. He just handled it so poorly and was such an ass about it. I mean… service desk has procedures and they’re supposed to follow…. I know he’s the store manager and he’s busy….. but that doesn’t mean you can just treat people like shit and tell them what to do and what procedures and policies they can ignore because you don’t want to follow them because you’re “busy.” I mean…. he should know that service desk closes at 9 PM and be ready. I just want nothing to do with him now.
So…. after that shit…. I got home and went back out to the Boost with my bro. I had eaten nothing but a bagel all day…. so I probably shouldn’t have gone uber drinking…. but I did. I shared a pitcher of PBR with my bro…. we chatted with the bartender who was so happy with us because we were not leaving her alone with this creep that’s there every night and thinks he owns the place and the bartender…. who’s a wicked hot girl a year younger than me, Amanda. Anyway…. we stayed and had a second pitcher…. and then the owner bought us a third pitcher for staying and being awesome…… and then I tried a Dan! recommended drink…. rum, ginger beer, and some lime juice and Kahlua… but by then I was way too drunk to actually remember or notice the flavor. I mean three pitchers of beer was about 8-9 beers on an empty stomach in about 2 hours… and then this thing….. I was so so gone. I got home…. and was done. I slept like 14 hours to kill the hangover. I mean… I slept for like 10, woke up feeling so dead miserable… drank some juice that I then threw right back up because my stomach was not tolerating anything at the moment. Then I went back to sleep for another 4 hours and woke up a little better. It was just crazy shit how drunk I was…. and not the fun drunk…. but the time to pass out drunk….. yeah.
So then…. in that second set of sleep…. I had the worst dream. I dreamt that my cousin Mike died. He was just put in the hospital like a few weeks ago seizureing for what reason we don’t know. Anyway… in the dream….. I was all online and looking up stuff… I think on lj… and was going to some of these lj’s of people I didn’t know…. and reading them talking all sadly about a friend of theirs that just died the previous morning in the hospital. I eventually went looking on news outlets/obituaries and found out that it was my cousin Mike. I was totally shocked and didn’t know what to do with myself. We were (and are in reality) having a cookout gettogether thing this Saturday and he was supposed to be well enough to come and everything. I was just shocked.
So….. like I was upstairs in my brother’s room on the computer there (which is where it used to be when we were kids and only had one house computer) and was coming down the stairs when it hit me that he was dead. I just kinda sat down halfway down the stairs and leaned my head on the wall. I was listening to my Dad on the phone… he was talking to Grampy and I could tell it was about Mike and what we were going to do on Saturday. I just started crying and couldn’t stop. My father came up and asked what I was crying about...... saying I couldn’t possibly know yet…. and I told him I saw it online that Mike was dead. Then he touched my face and tried to say some comforting words.
That was where I kinda woke up… but was all kinda still groggy and convinced that it was true… that it was Tuesday morning and Mike had died Monday. I was all freaked out…. but the feeling eventually went away… though I’m still a little creeped out and all worried about significance even though I know it meant nothing.
Okay… so then work tonight had some very interesting things. Laurel handed it off to me in good shape…. though my adorable Alex was leaving as I was coming on…. but luckily I believe I have a whole shift with him on Wednesday which will be awesome…. I can take him aside for some special one on one training and be just like my hero Paul Dwyer but with boys.
I also started the shift all freaked out. I cut myself shaving… right above my lip…. and it had been like 40 minutes and I fucking couldn’t get it to stop bleeding. And I was all self-conscious and feeling like everyone was staring at me and I was just freaking out…. I eventually got it to stop and kinda calmed down….. but it was a little off-setting for me.
Then… the shift went kinda normally. Nothing spectacular work wise….. people did what I asked… there was no fail. Also…. we were all multiethnic on register…. Toni on 4, Rosa on 5, and Lily on 6… I was all… cool.
So…. interesting stories of the night….. Missy used her feminine powers to get whatever she wants out of Paul Dwyer… she all batter her eyes at him and got a chair from the office to sit in for her shift in the service desk. So she just sat there and read magazines all night. I also took the which Camp Rock Jonas brother would I like. I all got Kevin…. who looks like me and is named Jason in the movie too. It was funny. Both Missy and Kathryn Reilly got Joe… and we all agree Joe Jonas is by far the sexiest one of the three.
Then…. I also saw Dan Smith tonight. I always wanted that kid… and he’s just as hot now as he always was. He was with some girl…. didn’t say anything to me and I was busy and didn’t really say anything to him. As much I thought he was hot…. we never really meshed.
Also…. James is back for nightcrew… and all he does is walk around and talk and not do anything I notice. It’s kinda sad…. probably why he got suspended.
Also…. I got sucked into another customer vortex. She’s this nice bartender my parents know from their local bar… The Boost. She’s having a rough time… her liver’s shot and she needs a transplant or she’ll probably die. It’s ugly…. but she talked to me for like 45 minutes about the different churches she’s gone too… how she likes Corpus Christi and Fr. Rodney… even though she’s Episcopal. But yeah… she’s a sweet woman and it was lovely talking to her…. but I hate being away from working like that. I kinda made up for it by not taking my break… which is bad…. but it’s me.
Okay… so this is kinda the cute boy section….. but it’s all different and about cuteness and awesomeness of one boy I hardly mention…. Ben McGuire. So yeah…. of late…. Ben’s been rather talkative with me…. kinda walking around and following me and talking to me about all kinds of stuff. I never really paid too much attention to it….. at work I get all absorbed in the work and get kinda oblivious to shit. Also…. he’s hard to understand at times. He talks so softly and all stutters a bit…. and it’s just so endearingly cute…. but I have bad ears and hate constantly making him repeat himself…. so I miss some of it.
But anyway…. today I all noticed it a lot. He kept coming over to talk to me at the podium or wherever I was when there were no customers. I don’t mind it…. it reminds me of Nick Storer when he always did that with me when on the front end. So….. back to the heart of it….. we had a very interesting talk today. He was talking about how he couldn’t wait for college and to get away from high school because he’s had a less than ideal high school experience. It all started out with having a dick of a class president and what have you…. but then he got to the real why part…. how he put a bull’s-eye on his back because he started up a Christian group in his school and they all protested it. I was all….. okay…. now kinda want this kid…. all Christian at things is awesome… and major balls for doing that in shitty secular OH GOD THERE CAN BE NO RELIGION IN SCHOOL world. Massively impressed by him am I now. Sadly we got busy and I didn’t get to press more…. but I’m totally curious about what the group was and why everyone was so against it… though I can imagine. Also… now I kinda want him….. it’s not completely out of nowhere…. I mean…. he’s cute…. all nervous and quiet and vulnerable like….. and that brings out my evil predatory instincts. And the stuttering and shyness and quiet and glasses and kinda nerdy looking is just so adorable…. and I have a total weakness for that look. So yeah… my only problem before was that he never said anything… so I kinda just didn’t care…. but now he’s all talkative and I’m all of a sudden all piqued interest at him. I will have to have more fun conversations with him.
And lastly…. Holly who formerly did overnight produce and who I have a mad crush on….. now works during the days. She was removed from overnight for not being productive enough. There are rumors that she and James did too much talking and not enough working… and that’s why he got suspended and she got demoted. I’m not sure…. but she was in 3 times on Sunday buying a balloon for her friend’s 21st birthday and then a card. Yeah… she’s just smoking hot.
I believe that shall close this evening’s recap.
Okay… Sunday work…. it was just a miserable shift. We had like 70 cashiers and 2 customers. Every second after like 7 PM….. just no customers. I got all the blocking done… returns done…. trash done… registers cleaned… people shopping the store…. Dave Allard was even tier blocking aisles for nightcrew… though he did his usual fail job. Oh God…. it was just so dead. I mean…. at 9 Kristey asked if she could go home… I think kinda jokingly…. but I let her go… there was no reason… there were 3 of us there until 10…. I probably could’ve let either Lee or Nadejda go too.
So… besides that… the fun stories. So when I got there…. Dick England all needed stuff from me and was all nice as pie. I got the red card for him… which took forever because Blair was a whore…. but we’ll get to that later… but he all let me micromanage everything and put up no complaints….. I hope this will be a sign for the future.
Also… fucking Alex Connolly again. scheduled like 1:45 to 6… but he just punches out at 5:45 because that’s 4 hours and he doesn’t want to stay. I just wanted to fucking kill him. That kid is the laziest piece of shit in the history of the world and he has no use whatsoever. I fucking hate him.
Dave Allard…. another fun horror story. Fort some reason I was all nice to him the whole shift…. went for him for advice… etc. I let him explain tier blocking, let him suggest things to do because I’d run out of all the regular things. It was freaky…. I don’t know what was wrong with me. And it proved worthless as always as Dave just failed at blocking. Also… Jen said that the look on his face as he was just wandering around and doing stuff was priceless… he looked all angry and pissed that he wasn’t CDH. I’m amused if that is what it was. Also…. all shift he would just wander off and do stuff…. he’d take returns without asking me, do register trash without asking me, take trash out back, etc. I mean…. normally I’d tell someone to check with me before doing that stuff…. but he was keeping himself busy and I didn’t want to talk to him…. so it was all good.
So Lee on Sunday was fun too…. she was totally afraid of the lightning. Apparently her brother locked her out of the house when she was 7 during a thunder storm…. I had to totally walk her out to her car at the end of the night…. it was cute. But yeah… I enjoyed her up on the front… she works hard and does good stuff…. though she’s yet another that will not block for me…. but like no one will block… everyone hates.
So….. the real story of the night….. our store manager has officially lost any respect I had for him. He was a fucking ass. I mean….. just a fucking ass. First…. I need the red card at 5 when I got in as there were like 3 people that all needed it. Jen paged him like 3 times and he never answered…. so finally I got on and paged in my loud, angry, and annoyed voice. He called back immediately. Truth be told…. Jen pages too quietly and needs to yell a lot louder…. especially to get inattentive managers that don’t want to be gotten.
So…. at 5:30…. two more people were coming in and needed the red card again…. Lee being one of them. So she went to get it from Blair and he was as pissed as fuck ad yelling at Lee about why the fuck so many people needed the red card… then he was all… tell Jason no more calling people in to replace anyone or letting people stay late without his permission. Like seriously…. I wasn’t doing any of those anyway… and I never would without asking the manager. It’s like… Blair…. chill the fuck out…. people need the red card for a variety of reasons…. mostly because they’re switching shift or because sometimes the system just won’t let them punch in or out. It happens. But…. while he was doing all of this yelling at Lee… it was right in front of a customer and she went up to Lee afterward and was all… what was he so angry about and I feel sorry for you. When customers do that because the manager is an ass….. well…. that’s no good.
So then 9 PM comes around. Like 10 minutes before 9 Jen called for Blair…. and it took him a while to answer again….. but she got him and let him know her stuff was ready to go up to the cash office. He was kinda rude and said he was busy and just told her to wait for him. So she waited…. it was 9 and she needed to go home. She called again and watching her face as he was talking to her it looked like he was just continuing being an ass. He was all… I’m blocking dairy…. I’m not just gonna stop what I’m doing because you need me. Just leave everything there…. I’m the store manager…. you can do what I say. He eventually came up at like 9:10 and all called me over by wagging his finger at me…. which is rude enough s it is. So I put the stuff up with him… and he was all… tell Jen next time not to leave the drawers out… but leave them locked. I all wanted to tell him to learn to be a better manager and do his job….. but I didn’t. He just handled it so poorly and was such an ass about it. I mean… service desk has procedures and they’re supposed to follow…. I know he’s the store manager and he’s busy….. but that doesn’t mean you can just treat people like shit and tell them what to do and what procedures and policies they can ignore because you don’t want to follow them because you’re “busy.” I mean…. he should know that service desk closes at 9 PM and be ready. I just want nothing to do with him now.
So…. after that shit…. I got home and went back out to the Boost with my bro. I had eaten nothing but a bagel all day…. so I probably shouldn’t have gone uber drinking…. but I did. I shared a pitcher of PBR with my bro…. we chatted with the bartender who was so happy with us because we were not leaving her alone with this creep that’s there every night and thinks he owns the place and the bartender…. who’s a wicked hot girl a year younger than me, Amanda. Anyway…. we stayed and had a second pitcher…. and then the owner bought us a third pitcher for staying and being awesome…… and then I tried a Dan! recommended drink…. rum, ginger beer, and some lime juice and Kahlua… but by then I was way too drunk to actually remember or notice the flavor. I mean three pitchers of beer was about 8-9 beers on an empty stomach in about 2 hours… and then this thing….. I was so so gone. I got home…. and was done. I slept like 14 hours to kill the hangover. I mean… I slept for like 10, woke up feeling so dead miserable… drank some juice that I then threw right back up because my stomach was not tolerating anything at the moment. Then I went back to sleep for another 4 hours and woke up a little better. It was just crazy shit how drunk I was…. and not the fun drunk…. but the time to pass out drunk….. yeah.
So then…. in that second set of sleep…. I had the worst dream. I dreamt that my cousin Mike died. He was just put in the hospital like a few weeks ago seizureing for what reason we don’t know. Anyway… in the dream….. I was all online and looking up stuff… I think on lj… and was going to some of these lj’s of people I didn’t know…. and reading them talking all sadly about a friend of theirs that just died the previous morning in the hospital. I eventually went looking on news outlets/obituaries and found out that it was my cousin Mike. I was totally shocked and didn’t know what to do with myself. We were (and are in reality) having a cookout gettogether thing this Saturday and he was supposed to be well enough to come and everything. I was just shocked.
So….. like I was upstairs in my brother’s room on the computer there (which is where it used to be when we were kids and only had one house computer) and was coming down the stairs when it hit me that he was dead. I just kinda sat down halfway down the stairs and leaned my head on the wall. I was listening to my Dad on the phone… he was talking to Grampy and I could tell it was about Mike and what we were going to do on Saturday. I just started crying and couldn’t stop. My father came up and asked what I was crying about...... saying I couldn’t possibly know yet…. and I told him I saw it online that Mike was dead. Then he touched my face and tried to say some comforting words.
That was where I kinda woke up… but was all kinda still groggy and convinced that it was true… that it was Tuesday morning and Mike had died Monday. I was all freaked out…. but the feeling eventually went away… though I’m still a little creeped out and all worried about significance even though I know it meant nothing.
Okay… so then work tonight had some very interesting things. Laurel handed it off to me in good shape…. though my adorable Alex was leaving as I was coming on…. but luckily I believe I have a whole shift with him on Wednesday which will be awesome…. I can take him aside for some special one on one training and be just like my hero Paul Dwyer but with boys.
I also started the shift all freaked out. I cut myself shaving… right above my lip…. and it had been like 40 minutes and I fucking couldn’t get it to stop bleeding. And I was all self-conscious and feeling like everyone was staring at me and I was just freaking out…. I eventually got it to stop and kinda calmed down….. but it was a little off-setting for me.
Then… the shift went kinda normally. Nothing spectacular work wise….. people did what I asked… there was no fail. Also…. we were all multiethnic on register…. Toni on 4, Rosa on 5, and Lily on 6… I was all… cool.
So…. interesting stories of the night….. Missy used her feminine powers to get whatever she wants out of Paul Dwyer… she all batter her eyes at him and got a chair from the office to sit in for her shift in the service desk. So she just sat there and read magazines all night. I also took the which Camp Rock Jonas brother would I like. I all got Kevin…. who looks like me and is named Jason in the movie too. It was funny. Both Missy and Kathryn Reilly got Joe… and we all agree Joe Jonas is by far the sexiest one of the three.
Then…. I also saw Dan Smith tonight. I always wanted that kid… and he’s just as hot now as he always was. He was with some girl…. didn’t say anything to me and I was busy and didn’t really say anything to him. As much I thought he was hot…. we never really meshed.
Also…. James is back for nightcrew… and all he does is walk around and talk and not do anything I notice. It’s kinda sad…. probably why he got suspended.
Also…. I got sucked into another customer vortex. She’s this nice bartender my parents know from their local bar… The Boost. She’s having a rough time… her liver’s shot and she needs a transplant or she’ll probably die. It’s ugly…. but she talked to me for like 45 minutes about the different churches she’s gone too… how she likes Corpus Christi and Fr. Rodney… even though she’s Episcopal. But yeah… she’s a sweet woman and it was lovely talking to her…. but I hate being away from working like that. I kinda made up for it by not taking my break… which is bad…. but it’s me.
Okay… so this is kinda the cute boy section….. but it’s all different and about cuteness and awesomeness of one boy I hardly mention…. Ben McGuire. So yeah…. of late…. Ben’s been rather talkative with me…. kinda walking around and following me and talking to me about all kinds of stuff. I never really paid too much attention to it….. at work I get all absorbed in the work and get kinda oblivious to shit. Also…. he’s hard to understand at times. He talks so softly and all stutters a bit…. and it’s just so endearingly cute…. but I have bad ears and hate constantly making him repeat himself…. so I miss some of it.
But anyway…. today I all noticed it a lot. He kept coming over to talk to me at the podium or wherever I was when there were no customers. I don’t mind it…. it reminds me of Nick Storer when he always did that with me when on the front end. So….. back to the heart of it….. we had a very interesting talk today. He was talking about how he couldn’t wait for college and to get away from high school because he’s had a less than ideal high school experience. It all started out with having a dick of a class president and what have you…. but then he got to the real why part…. how he put a bull’s-eye on his back because he started up a Christian group in his school and they all protested it. I was all….. okay…. now kinda want this kid…. all Christian at things is awesome… and major balls for doing that in shitty secular OH GOD THERE CAN BE NO RELIGION IN SCHOOL world. Massively impressed by him am I now. Sadly we got busy and I didn’t get to press more…. but I’m totally curious about what the group was and why everyone was so against it… though I can imagine. Also… now I kinda want him….. it’s not completely out of nowhere…. I mean…. he’s cute…. all nervous and quiet and vulnerable like….. and that brings out my evil predatory instincts. And the stuttering and shyness and quiet and glasses and kinda nerdy looking is just so adorable…. and I have a total weakness for that look. So yeah… my only problem before was that he never said anything… so I kinda just didn’t care…. but now he’s all talkative and I’m all of a sudden all piqued interest at him. I will have to have more fun conversations with him.
And lastly…. Holly who formerly did overnight produce and who I have a mad crush on….. now works during the days. She was removed from overnight for not being productive enough. There are rumors that she and James did too much talking and not enough working… and that’s why he got suspended and she got demoted. I’m not sure…. but she was in 3 times on Sunday buying a balloon for her friend’s 21st birthday and then a card. Yeah… she’s just smoking hot.
I believe that shall close this evening’s recap.